ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,195, issued on May 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Securely detecting online fraud malware" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.) and David Bruce Turner (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for secure detection of online fraud. The method includes generating an encrypted profile representing browser activity, sending the encrypted profile to a secure multiparty computation system, receiving a trust token from the secure multiparty computation system, based on a determination that the web browser is not engaged in online fraud, sending a request to redeem the trust token with the secure...